The Chinese have been dabbling in the arts from as early as 18,000 B.C. when simple pottery was discovered. In China, art was mostly used to depict philosophy, religious ideas, nature, and political figures.
In Chinese paintings, one important genre is figure painting. Nevertheless, images with children as the main subject are relatively rare. It was not until the time of the Six Dynasties (220-589) that children became the main focus in paintings, and…
During Emperor Xuanzong’s rule during the Tang Dynasty, General Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao were both skilled at Chinese landscape painting. People at the time called them Senior General Li and Junior General Li.
Today I met Lillian Addie, a 25-year-old artist who is having her first exhibit at the lovely Shirley Burke gallery in Parkdale, a seaside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Lillian’s paintings follow the traditions of modernism and abstract art.
In something you would see in a slap-stick comedy or a Mr Bean movie, a Taiwanese boy tripped and broke his fall by putting his hand through a 350-year-old painting worth $1.5 million. The 17th-century painting was Flowers by Paolo Porpora,…
If you did a lot of traveling and came to know other cultures, as an artist, how would you express your thoughts on the situations in those countries, their customs, or their daily lives?
With simple lines and colors, a silent and graceful blue China comes to life on paper.
New Year paintings are a kind of traditional Chinese painting that originated from ancient “Door-Knights Paintings,” which were officially dubbed New Year paintings in the Qing Dynasty.
The Chinese have been dabbling in the arts from as early as 18,000 B.C. when simple pottery was discovered. In China, art was mostly used to depict philosophy, religious ideas,…
In Chinese paintings, one important genre is figure painting. Nevertheless, images with children as the main subject are relatively rare. It was not until the time of the Six Dynasties…
During Emperor Xuanzong’s rule during the Tang Dynasty, General Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao were both skilled at Chinese landscape painting. People at the time called them Senior…
Today I met Lillian Addie, a 25-year-old artist who is having her first exhibit at the lovely Shirley Burke gallery in Parkdale, a seaside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Lillian’s paintings…
In something you would see in a slap-stick comedy or a Mr Bean movie, a Taiwanese boy tripped and broke his fall by putting his hand through a 350-year-old painting worth…
If you did a lot of traveling and came to know other cultures, as an artist, how would you express your thoughts on the situations in those countries, their customs, or their daily…
With simple lines and colors, a silent and graceful blue China comes to life on paper.
Earlier this year, a young man from Shanxi Province wowed many people with his extraordinary works of ballpoint pen art after they were shared widely on social media.
New Year paintings are a kind of traditional Chinese painting that originated from ancient “Door-Knights Paintings,” which were officially dubbed New Year paintings in the Qing Dynasty.
If you’ve ever been a student, you must have experience of doodling on textbooks with a pen during boring lectures. The simple color and lines hardly make a masterpiece in…
Minibuses are the most common vehicle in China, and you can see them on every street.
When you can walk by a drawing and get hungry looking at it, you know this artist has skills. Whether it’s a piece of art or a piece of candy,…
Marcello Barenghi does photorealistic and 3D drawings. Check out this drawing he did of Iron Man.
This guy creates a beautiful Asian landscape painting in a matter of minutes. Extreme street art from Burma. Or is it Myanmar?
Watch this artist from Beijing blend into the background, brushstroke by brushstroke. Little do you realize that Liu Bolin is in there, watching you, fully covered in paint.
Malaysian-born artist Red Hong Yi steals the soccer ball and rolls it in paint for her latest creation. She paint players Ronaldo, Neymar and Messi for this huge triple-portrait of World…
